Atlantic Ocean

摘要

The author has written more than 50 books and has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations. He has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts and South Carolina.rnThe term Atlantic derives from the Greek god Atlas and the ocean is bordered by four continents. The book says that the Atlantic has a greater shoreline than the Pacific and Indian Oceans combined. Also, the continental areas drained by rivers emptying into the Atlantic are twice as great as for those other two oceans. Thus the Atlantic has always been important in the transfer of people, ideas, and cultures as well as in communications generally. Early explorers were driven by a desire to fine another route to the riches of India and China or a wish to escape persecution and poverty in Europe.